Re: [Tutor] Acessing files in Windows 2000

2005-03-09 Thread Dave S
Danny Yoo wrote: [Windows bashing cut] Python's support for Windows stuff is actually quite good, thanks to the work of Mark Hammond: http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/ A lot of us here do use Windows for COM programming. Let's get back to talking about Python programming and let's help

Re: [Tutor] regular expression question

2005-03-09 Thread Mike Hall
But I only want to ignore B if A is a match. If A is not a match, I'd like it to advance on to B. On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Marcos Mendonça wrote: Hi Not and regexp expert. But it seems to me that if you want to ignora B then it should be (A) | (^B) Hope it helps! On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:11:57

Re: [Tutor] regular expression question

2005-03-09 Thread Liam Clarke
Actually, you should get that anyway... | Alternation, or the ``or'' operator. If A and B are regular expressions, A|B will match any string that matches either A or B. | has very low precedence in order to make it work reasonably when you're alternating multi-character strings. Crow|Servo

Re: [Tutor] regular expression question

2005-03-09 Thread Mike Hall
but yeah, it seems you're expecting it to examine the string as a whole. I guess I was, good point. On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Liam Clarke wrote: Actually, you should get that anyway... | Alternation, or the ``or'' operator. If A and B are regular expressions, A|B will match any string

Re: [Tutor] Acessing files in Windows 2000

2005-03-09 Thread jfouhy
import os.path print os.path.expanduser('~/memo.txt') C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator/memo.txt f = open(os.path.expanduser('~/memo.txt')) Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#15, line 1, in ? f = open(os.path.expanduser('~/memo.txt')) IOError: [Errno 2]

Re: [Tutor] regular expression question

2005-03-09 Thread Kent Johnson
Mike Hall wrote: A simple example will show what I mean: import re x = re.compile(r(A) | (B)) s = X R A Y B E r = x.sub(13, s) print r X R 13Y13 E ...so unless I'm understanding it wrong, B is supposed to be ignored if A is matched, yet I get both matched. I get the same result if I

Re: [Tutor] Acessing files in Windows 2000

2005-03-09 Thread Dave S
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import os.path print os.path.expanduser('~/memo.txt') C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator/memo.txt f = open(os.path.expanduser('~/memo.txt')) Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#15, line 1, in ? f =

Re: [Tutor] working with new classes

2005-03-09 Thread C Smith
Thanks to Sean and Kent for replies. I found a site that provided some good examples, too, at http://www.cafepy.com/articles/python_attributes_and_methods/ ch03s02.html Here's a blurb from the title page: wep page excerpt Shalabh Chaturvedi Copyright © 2004 Shalabh Chaturvedi This book

Re: [Tutor] Acessing files in Windows 2000

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Mill
mmm ... I kind of see what you mean. Does anyone have like a realy large shovel so I can dig a hole and hide ? No worries, we've all been there before. Sometimes you just can't see what's right in front of your face. Don't let it stop you, or stop you from asking questions. Peace Bill Mill